Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-250 AD, preserved in Eusebius) on two men named James: one thrown from the Temple pinnacle and beaten to death with a fuller's club, one beheaded

Clement of Alexandria, preserved in Eusebius, records: the Lord after his resurrection imparted knowledge to James the Just, John, and Peter, who passed it to the Apostles and then to the seventy. There were two men named James: (1) James the Just, thrown from the pinnacle of the Temple and beaten to death with a club by a fuller; (2) James who was beheaded (James son of Zebedee). Clement also references the Talmud (Sanhedrin 45a) on stoning procedure: the condemned was first thrown off a height (cliff, wall, or pinnacle) and then stoned — explaining why both throwing and stoning appear in the accounts.